Shades of Fern

Shades of Fern (1986)

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.

star 5 6.9
  • Release Date: 1986-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Director: František Vláčil

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Cast

  • Marek Probosz

    Ruda Aksamit

  • Zbigniew Suszyński

    Vašek Kala

  • Miroslav Macháček

    Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

  • František Peterka

    Father Aksamit

  • Vladimír Hlavatý

    Čepelka

  • Milada Ježková

    Čepelková

  • Josef Patočka

    Elsner

  • Oldřich Velen

    Police Officer

  • Jaroslav Tomsa

    Policeman

  • Marta Vančurová

    Rousová

  • Emma Černá

    Keeper's Wife

  • Jana Švandová

  • Jiří Schmitzer

  • Zdeňka Sajfertová

  • Petr Skarke

    Marjánka

  • Vítězslav Jandák

    Policeman

  • Arnošt Böhm

  • Josef Pechanec

  • Frantisek Stupka

  • Jaroslav Špáňa

  • Karel Vávrovec

  • Jaroslav Vlk

  • Soňa Novotná

  • Karel Smrž

  • Dobroslav Čech

  • Bohumil Vávra

  • Zdeněk Podhůrský

  • Jitka Asterová

  • Martina Bezoušková

  • Vlastimil Drbal

  • Karel Bělohradský

  • Slávka Hamouzová

  • Vlastimila Vlková

  • Josef Blahož

    Musician

  • Josef Čermák

    Musician

  • Jan Forejt

    Musician

  • Josef Fürst

    Musician

  • Josef Kasl

    Musician

  • Zdeněk Kesler

    Musician

  • Jan Kopecký

    Musician

  • Antonín Korb

    Musician

  • Jaroslav Materna

    Musician

  • Jiří Miloš

    Musician

  • Vojtěch Říha

    Musician

  • Jaroslav Šprunk

    Musician

  • František Trnka

    Musician

  • František Zikán

    Musician

  • Ladislav Vacek

    Musician

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